=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "CIA: Conspiracies In Action" ----------------------------- In order for nations to survive and remain strong, there are certain factors and institutions which must blend together. A nation must have a social-political structure and a viable, functioning economic apparatus to propel it forward. The foundation for the United States is predicated on several variables, two of which are the Constitution, which is a "living, growing document" and an economic system based on free market principles, namely capitalism. For over two hundred years, both of these systems have functioned to create one of the greatest nations in the history of the civilized human race. For most Americans and people of the world, the premise of American democracy is based on a government run by the consent of the people. Our rights are protected by the Constitution, and the government itself functions via a system of checks and balances. Each branch of our government balances its' power through the others. But something unusual occurred after World War II. A secret or "invisible" government emerged from "the smoke and rubble of Pearl Harbor. It was still a child when the Cold War began after World War II, an adolescent during the 1950's, and it reached its majority a year after President Kennedy took office" (The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross, 1964) It is not a formal institution. In its present state it has grown into... "...a loose, amorphous grouping of individuals and agencies drawn from many parts of the visible government". This second unseen government is responsible for carrying out the policies (foreign and domestic) for the first or visible government. The primary function of the secret government is to gather intelligence, conduct espionage, and plan and execute secret operations all over the globe. It is not limited to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), although the CIA is at its heart. There are nine other agencies that compromise the intelligence community. In no particular order, they are the National Security Agency, Army, Navy, and Air Force Intelligence, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The complexity and shadowy nature of the secret government is further insulated by individuals and businesses, some public and some ostensibly private. This organization is making decisions regarding peace and war completely out of public view. In fact, it is so secretive that few, if any, of our elected officials are involved in its decisions, and that includes the President. In effect, the United States has two distinct foreign policy agendas. One follows a public direction, which generally promulgates the altruistic myth of America as the good-guy. The other policy is carried out by the secret government and works in the opposite direction of the public policy. The premise of an intelligence gathering agency finds its inception under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, when he created the Office of Coordinator of Information. On June 13, 1942, this agency was split into the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information. The function of the O.S.S. was to gather information, but quickly expanded to include special covert operations, a policy still followed by the CIA. In September, 1945, President Truman disbanded the OSS. Four months later, he issued an executive order creating the National Intelligence Group and, under it, a Central Intelligence Group, which became the forerunner of the CIA. In 1947 the CIA was officially created by the National Security Act, and its duties were set forth in five specific areas, all under the auspices of the National Security Council. To simplify these five functions, the law appeared to give the CIA the task of obtaining, correlating, evaluating, coordinating, and advising the NSC. Today, the question is how could these guidelines be so blatantly abused? The answer lies in the "other functions" which the CIA may perform under the 1947 Act. Because there is no specific provision for covert political operations in the 1947 Act, the NSC issued a "paper" in the summer of 1948 authorizing special operations. There were two important guidelines: the operations must be secret and they must be "plausibly deniable by the government." By 1951 the CIA merged and consolidated its power to the point where it became an operational and at times a policy-making arm of government, Truman was clearly disturbed by this diversion of the CIA, but it was during his presidency that the CIA began conducting special operations. In time, many citizens and Congressmen began questioning the actions of the CIA, but to no avail. Theoretically, Congress controls all appropriations to all agencies and institutions in the United States, but not to the CIA. In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed, exempting the CIA from all Federal laws that required the disclosure of the "functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency." It gave the director of the Agency the staggering and unprecedented power to spend money without being accountable to anyone! The reasoning behind this Act was to protect the field agents. Without public access to records, vouchers, or expenditures, the identity of our agents would remain secure and subsequently so would our national security. Through the 1950's the CIA and the "invisible government" began to acquire unprecedented strength and further expand the scope of its operations. The emergence of the Agency in all of its size and power is directly correlated to the Dulles brothers and their relationship with the federal government. Uniquely, they embodied the dualism, and indeed the moral dilemma of the United States foreign policy. During the Eisenhower Administration, John Foster Dulles became the Secretary of State while his younger brother, Allen Dulles, formerly an agent of the OSS, became the first civilian director of the CIA. Between these two men, they shaped, developed, and implemented two distinct foreign policies. Under Foster Dulles the United States formulated its policy of containment, regarding the Soviet Unions quest to advance Communism. Publicly, the United States would never "adopt the evil tactics of subversion and secret manipulation practiced by the Communist enemy." In essence, Foster Dulles reflected the mythic America that Americans had grown accustomed to seeing, hearing, and reading about via the media. The CIA propaganda machine in conjunction with Hollywood movie makers worked overtime, consciously or not, to promote this ideal. American morality and work ethic was the epitome of all that was good and righteous; the world as we would like it to be. While he took this public position, his brother was free to deal with the realities of foreign policy. He was able to fight fire with fire. Simply put, overturning governments whether it occurred through economic warfare, coup d'etat, assassination, rigged elections, or even genocide was irrelevent, as long as it paralleled the public policy expressed by the State Department. The dark side of the government was in effect largely kept secret from the American people and Congress. Because of the relationship between the Dulles brothers, the natural friction between the State Department and the CIA never materialized. In order to survive, nations need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is primarily an intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of the Agency's greatest propaganda triumphs. Despite its name, the CIA's main purpose is carrying out covert operations. The Agency is also expert at distorting intelligence to justify its own goals. This disinformation leads to dangerous illusions amoung our policy makers. As long as the CIA exists in its present state, and there is no reason to believe it will change in the near future, our government can break and and all laws in the name of national security. Perhaps one of the most important of all operations began before the Agency was even born. Towards the end of World War II, many Nazi leaders recognized the inevitable, and began negotiating with the United States. These negotiations contained two areas of primary focus: surrender and receive safe passage to a neutral nation of their choice and the possibilty of waging a war against the new threat to the United States, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's emerging status as a super power created a "new world order"; a bi-polar world, and with it the onset of the Cold War. Both of the nations would follow a foreign policy designed to confront the other in every conceivable aspect of foreign relations. Sports, trade agreements, space exploration, the development of weapons of mass destruction, imperialism (some blatant, some clandestine) spheres of influence; the list is endless, and the regions of the world where the confrontations took place span the entire globe. BEfore World War II came to a conclusion, the United States and its allies came to comprehend this potential new threat, as did the Nazi leaders of Germany. What the Nazis had to offer the United States was a source of intelligence throughout Eastern Europe. As we know this region became the buffer zone the Soviet Union sought as compensation for its role in defeating Hitler's armies. The "iron curtain", as Churchill called it, would separate the democratic nations of Western Europe. The Nazi intelligence network was already in place and the United States recognized this opportunity. The man that put this operation in motion was an agent of the OSS, and future CIA director, Allen Dulles. In 1943 he began secret negotiations with General Reinhard Gehlan, Hitler's Intelligence Chief for the Eastern front. When these secret discussions were finalized, General Gehlan was whisked to Fort Hunt in Virginia. His espionage network, which became known as the "Gehlan Org", would work for, and be funded by the United States. For almost ten years, the Gehlan Org was virtually the CIA's only source of intelligence regarding Eastern Europe. By 1955 it evolved into the BND, Germany's equivalent of the CIA. Many fled to Latin America to live lives in comfort, security, and to continue working with CIA linked groups. To ensure that Western Europe remained anti-Communist (although not necessarily democratic), the CIA organized secret paramilitary units, with hidden stockpiles of weapons and explosives. These units existed in Italy (operation Gladio, 1948), France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Most were directed by former SS officers and had connections with an international fascist unbrella organization called the World Anti-Communist League. This organization was formed in 1961, and served as a worldwide network for extreme right wing militants. It boasts of a membership of extremely dubious and deviant groups. Former Nazis, Italian terrorists, Japanese fascists, racist Afrikaners, Latin American "death squads", United States Congressmen, and "former" CIA agents. In fact, this organization (WACL) played a major role in the internal affairs of Latin America. One of the more notable operations involved the assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop, Oscar Romero, in 1980. Romero wrote then President Carter regarding the numerous human rights violations occurring in his country. The murderous rulers, led by Roberto D'Aubuisson, an admirer of Hitler, orderered the hit. His party, known as ARENA, is still supported by the CIA and rules the country. Between 1979 and 1992, over 70,000 "peasants" have been executed by the ARENA party. One of the more infamous operations occurred in Guatemala in the early 1950's. By this time, the Dulles brothers were firmly entrenched as the "czars" of American foreign policy. Both remained partners in the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. In 1951, Jacobo Arbenz was elected President of Guatemala by a landslide in a free and fair election. His primary goal was to transform Guatemala's backwards economy to a "modern capitalist state." The first orders of business was to appropriate land that was controlled by the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, for which they were fairly compensated. This company was represented by none other than Sullivan and Cromwell. They immediately embarked on a propaganda campaign to discredit Arbenz as a Communist conspirator. The CIA conducted extensive propaganda operations and sabotage against the government. In 1954, unmarked CIA planes staged a series of air raids on the capital, dropping leaflets demanding the President's resignation. CIA-run radio stations warned of an impending invasion by a rebel army, who in actuality were mercenaries hired by the CIA. Arbenz fled the country and left Guatemala in the control of a CIA hand-picked "stooge", General Castillo Armas. Over the past 40 years, various CIA backed regimes have murdered more than 100,000 nationals in Guatemala. While in Latin America, let's examine some of the CIA's famous and less famous operations. In 1930, Raphael Trujillo took power in the Dominican Republic via a coup d'etat. He was enthusiastically backed by Washington for most of the next 30 years. Trujillo was totally devoted to the U.S. in the United Nations, and in return, the U.S. raised no objection to his methods of suppressing dissent - torture and mass murder. Throughout his years of rule, U.S. companies enjoyed a "favorable investment climate". By the late 1950's Trujillo controlled two-thirds of the economy. His incessant greed threatened the "favorable investment climate" for U.S. companies, and the U.S. government began to worry about a "Castro-type revolution." In 1961, Trujillo was mysteriously assassinated. His predecessor, Juan Bosch, was deposed by a CIA-backed coup, seven months after he took office. He was restored back to power in 1965 by a popular countercoup, only to be deposed again by a CIA invasion. A series of murderous regimes have maintained a "favorable investment climate" ever since, even while the citizens of this island nation suffer from acute poverty. In 1973, the CIA destroyed the oldest functioning democracy in South America, Chile. In 1970, a socialist by the name of Salvador Allende was elected President. The President of the United States, Richard Nixon, explicitly ordered the CIA to prevent his inauguration, and failed in an assassination plot. The CIA thus began a character assassination campaign to create a "coup climate". The CIA also orchestrated acts of sabotage, terror, guerrilla warfare, and arson. Funded by U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings, the CIA sponsored demonstrations and strikes. CIA linked media fanned the "flames of crisis". This barrage eventually eroded Allende's base of support, and, in September, of 1973, he, along with several cabinet members was assassinated. A military junta headed by General Pinochet seized power and began to purge the nation of radicals. Anyone who opposed his regime or was sympathetic to Allende was tortured and killed. Three years later, an exiled Chilean diplomat, an outspoken opponent of Pinochet (and the CIA), was blown to pieces by a car bomb. Orlando Letelier was not killed in Chile, but instead on the streets of Washington, D.C., U.S.A., along with his American aide, Ronni Moffit. CIA director George Bush told the FBI that there had been no Chilean involvement in these assassinations. But the CIA was quite aware of the fact that the Chilean secret police (DINA) had sent a hit squad to Washington. Soon after this incident, a Cuban airliner was blown up, killing 73 passengers. Investigators into the airline bombing found unmistakable connections to a meeting that took place between a "former" CIA operative, other CIA and FBI agents, as well as a violent group of CIA linked Cuban exiles. The bombing and assassinations were planned at this meeting. The CIA and FBI coverup is so complex that it is almost impossible to corroborate any reliable information regarding these incidents. One of the CIA's favorite hobbies was mind control experiments. Behavior control, as the CIA called it, became a great priority in 1953 (after the Korean War), under a program code named MK-ULTRA. This program was top secret and required the highest security clearance for anyone and everyone. Many of its files were destroyed when CIA director Richard Helms left his post in 1973. MK-ULTRA personnel (primarily "spooks and shrinks") tested radiation, electric shocks, electrode implants, microwaves, ultrasound, a wide range of drugs, and hypnosis on thousands of unsuspecting people. How they chose their "subjects" is so difficult to access that I cannot truly confirm all of the rumors I became aware of. Nonetheless, hundreds of prisoners have been used, voluntarily or not. During the mid to late 1950's, the CIA began to experiment with LSD. For many years it became the principle source of the drug in the U.S.. Some insiders insist that the "hippies" were part of their great experiment of the 1960's, but, personally, I think they used their own drugs on themselves. How else could you explain their bizarre behavior? LSD was also used on unsuspecting Vietnam personnel in the field. While in the field, I heard countless stories detailing these experiments. When I read "Jacob's Ladder", I was truly shocked, but it only confirmed what I thought to be true. The mass murder at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978 was actually the culmination of a massive CIA behavior experiment. Although reports of the incident referred to it as a "mass suicide", there is a lot of evidence that it was indeed mass murder. The coroner's report states that the 913 victims didn't drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid. Almost 90% of the victims received lethal injection, while the rest were shot. Cult leader Jim Jones had a long affiliation to the CIA. When he formed his People's temple in Ukiah, California, he engaged his people to infiltrate organizations of liberal politicians. San Francisco Mayor George Mascone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated a week after Jonestown. Both owed political favors to Jim Jones. When reports of murders tied to his temple began to surface, he fled with his flock to Guyana. The Prime Minister at the time owed his job to a 1964 CIA sponsored coup. People that survived Jonestown reported that it was a virtual concentration camp. Black cultists worked like slaves enduring beatings, torture, rape, and intense doses of drugs used in the MK-ULTRA program. When Representative Leo Ryan, a key congressional opponent of the CIAm arrived to investigate Jones, he was assassinated. Shortly, thereafter, the murders began. All of Jones' white lieutenants escaped as did hundreds of millions of dollars. Supposedly, Jones died, but no proof has ever been established. In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba. He immediately closed down the casinos, brothels, and nationalized the entire economy. He put the Mafia and U.S. based multi-nation corporations out of business in Cuba. He made many enemies. Vice-President Nixon, who had longstanding ties with the mob, through his friend Bebe Rebozo, began plotting with the CIA to eliminate Castro. Both the CIA and the mob expected Nixon to be the next President, but JFK was elected instead. In effect, Kennedy inherited the Bay of Pigs operation, which he was not too fond of. Kennedy did not want U.S. military forces to get involved, just Cuban exiles. The CIA hoped that they could coerce him into using the U.S. military. When this failed, so did the invasion and the whole operation. The operation called for the Mafia to assassinate Castro at the same time as the invasion. It was poorly planned, uncoordinated, and poorly executed. Kennedy took full responsibility and this incident brought him to the promise of dismantling the CIA. The assassination of JFK in Dallas in 1963 was truly the culmination of a power struggle between Kennedy and the secret government. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the relations between the two were quite frayed at best. Kennedy was perceived to be soft on the fight against Communism. In fact, prior to his death, he planned to pull out American military personnel from Vietnam, something the CIA was unequivocally opposed to. He fired CIA director Allen Dulles, and, because of the Bay of Pigs disaster and his brother's crusade against organized crime (Robert F. Kennedy was Attorney General), he was hated by the Mafia. The CIA and the Mafia had formed an uneasy partnership in their quest to kill Castro. Now, they shared a common enemy, John F. Kennedy. They began to weave an elaborate web of deceit, espionage, blackmail, and inevitably murder, after 1961. They stretched their reach of power to the very limits, to plan, coordinate, and execute the coverup of this operation. Lee Harvey Oswald, the supposed "lone gunman", was a pawn in their game of chess, as were countless others who were sacrificed in the name of national security. The list of players is literally a who's who if government operatives, Mafia heirarchy, businessmen, politicians, police officers, and citizens. The coverup is so extensive and complex that it is conceivable that we will never know the full truth. In another "assassination scenario", during the last few years of his life, Malcolm X did several things to antagonize the CIA. He accused the CIA of assassinating or overthrowing several third world leaders and their countries. In fact, he met with many of these leaders, who were only anti-American. He believed the CIA was behind the Lumumba assassination (Zaire, 1960), and threatened to officially ask the U.N. to declare American blacks an oppressed minority. But what scared the CIA the most was his radical shift away from the separatist, militant approach to a more moderate one. One week after his death, he was to have met for the first time Martin Luther King, Jr.. It is believed that both the FBI and the CIA had been spying on him in a coordinated effort, and government agents had infiltrated his group as well as the Nation of Islam. After his assassination in 1965, by members of the Nation of Islam, it was revealed that the conspiracy to kill Malcolm X also included the FBI and CIA. The FBI and CIA decided to reach out to the Mafia a second time, this time to plot the assassination of King. The plot, coordination, execution, escape, and cover-up that took place was a precision operation. The shooter, James Earl Ray, another "stooge" was connected to various members of all three of these entities. Again, we will probably never know the true story in this conspiracy or any others I have mentioned. Nor will we ever clarify Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Like his brother, J.F.K., he wanted no part of Vietnam, which of course was unthinkable for the industrial-military complex. He pushed for equal rights for blacks and was despised by the Mafia. People that were among those present at the scene of J.F.K.'s assassination and subsequent probe were also present for R.F.K.'s assassination. Is it a coincidence? Maybe... But maybe there is a common denominator that runs through all of these events. The evidence is too strong to believe that the secret government does not exist. From my personal experience in Vietnam, I witnessed first hand how "the Company" or "the Agency" operates. By now it is apparent to the reader, of the extensive scope of power the intelligence community, and in particular, the CIA have. Long before the U.S. military got directly involved there, Vietnam was the CIA's war. At first, they waged a fully operational clandestine war using locals, mercenaries, and French and Korean soldiers. They had the largest "private" airline in the world at the time, called Air America, but this effort proved to be in vain. The only way to free the region of the Communist plague was to fully involve the U.S. military. To do this, they had to create a favorable environment both in the region and at home. They accomplished both. Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand were home to several large, very secret, military installations. From these "bases of operations", the CIA could monitor the activities in both the North and South Vietnam. Through a propaganda campaign in North Vietnam, over one million refugees were brought to the South by CIA ships and planes. In the South, the CIA created the appearance of a democratic government by writing a Constitution and installing Ngo Dinh Diem as President. When they no longer needed Diem, he was assassinated, as was J.F.K.. Following the deaths of both Diem and J.F.K., they had successfully created the favorable environment they needed to involve the U.S. military. Within days of the J.F.K. assassination, newly installed President Johnson reversed J.F.K.'s plans to withdraw all military personnel. The CIA then fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which led to the Tonkin Resolution. Even though the U.S. military officially took control of the war after 1965, the CIA was part of the decision- making heirarchy. Policy, logistics, strategy, troop dispersal, air attacks in both the North and South, and clandestine operations from Laos and Cambodia were all under the jurisdiction of the CIA. They even dictated to the military what to tell the U.S. media, who were stationed in Saigon. This war was to be the crowning moment in the history of the CIA. They finally had everything they ever wanted: a full-blown war, with all of the trimmings. They controlled every conceivable aspect of the war, until January 1968. By 1968, over 550,000 troops were stationed in Vietnam. This war had grown into the "career opportunity of a lifetime" for the military-industrial complex, military career officers, and the CIA. They could extend the war for as long as they liked, while millions of dollars of tax payers' money were spent. But in January of 1968, they made a fatal mistake. They failed to recognize the coming of the TET offensive. The TET new year was to be a temporary cease fire, beginning on January 31. But military intelligence failed miserably. Instead of a cease-fire, every military installation in South Vietnam was simultaneously attacked, including the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Saigon was where the U.S. media resided. The war, in all of its color, glory, death, and mayhem finally came to Saigon. Subsequently, all of this was brought home to the American public via television. The profound results of the TET-1968 changed the nation, the people, Congress, and the policy regarding Vietnam. It was now time to figure a way out of this quagmire. "Peace with honor", said President Nixon. From 1968 to 1975, at the fall of Saigon, the CIA began to expand the war into Cambodia and cover its tracks in South Vietnam. When I arrived in the Nam in 1971, the nature of the war had changed dramatically. My primary goal in Vietnam was to survive, not to win the war. My first contact with field overatives, known as "spooks", came in October of 1971. I was newly assigned to the 25th infantry Division, located in War Zone C, III Corps, An Loc, Co Chi Province. We were extremely close to Cambodia, and all of my op's were in or near Cambodia, along the Ho Chi Minh trail. My previous unit, the 9th Infantry Division, stationed in the MeKing Delta region near My Tho, had rotated home. I joined this new unit primarily because of my skills as a "pointman". Shortly after arriving at my new area of operatives (AO), I was approached by a "military type" (spook), to "volunteer" for a new unit. This unit was to operate in total secrecy from the rest of the Division. Out AO was in Cambodia, deep behind "enemy" lines. Our unit was to be affiliated with Special Forces as an "elite mobilized unit". We were initially divided into four-men recon teams to acquire extensive intelligence. Our information led to air assaults by the Air Force, Army, and Navy on suspected V.C. and N.V.A. strongholds. In time, these recon teams became "sniper teams" or "hitsquads", as we called them. Our targets and missions were always highly classified. We spent days and even weeks at a time on an operation in the bush. We were highly trained and skilled with each member a specialist in one or two specific areas. I had acheived the highest classification for marksmanship. My other specialty was with knives. I remained in Vietnam for a total of 364 days, 14 hours, and seven minutes, to be exact. I participated in countless numbers of missions, all of which were covert in nature, and answered only to the field operatives running these missions. When my tour of duty was up, I flatly refused to re-up (re-enlist), and my future became rather tenuous with the Army. 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